Kenneth Truyers

To understand what constitutes a good pull request, we must first define the reason why we use the pull request process: - PR's are a great way of sharing information about the code base. - It creates an extra gate before our code goes to production - It improves code quality.…

Another year, another C# update. This time we’re up for already C# 8. I want to dive into the most likely new C# 8 features, what they look like and why they’re useful. Disclaimer: The information in this blog post was written well before the release of C# 8…

I came across a tweet today about refactoring badly written code. I’m always interested in that, so I saw a few fellow devs had taken some badly written code and then applied refactoring to it, following good software design principles. It all started with thi…

Git’s man-pages state that it’s a stupid content tracker. It’s probably the most used version control system in the world. Which is very strange, since it doesn’t describe itself as being a source control system. And in fact, you can use git to track any type…

Most developers love open source software, and often we come across a piece of software that we’re writing and think “it would be great if that already existed as an open source package”, but then, it doesn’t. Since we’re writing software for a company, the n…

Creating development silos, is a practice I have seen in many different teams. What I’m talking about is having developers specialize in parts of the domain, i.e. one developer handles all the code related to invoicing, another one does everything around order…

I make no secret of the fact that I don’t like ORM’s. One part of why I don’t like them is the way they handle database migrations. To successfully create and execute database migrations, you often need to know quite a bit about the framework. I don’t like ha…

In statically compiled languages, we usually lean on the compiler to catch out common errors (or plain stupidities). In dynamic languages we don’t have this luxury. While you could argue over whether this is a good or a bad thing, it’s certainly true that a go…

Last week I wrote about the yield return statement in c# and how it allows for deferred execution. In that post I explained how it powers LINQ and explained some non-obvious behaviors. In this week’s post I want to do the same thing but for Javascript. ES6 (ES…

The yield return statement is probably one of the most unknown features of C#. In this post I want to explain what it does and what its applications are. Even if most developers have heard of yield return it’s often misunderstood. Let’s start with an easy exam…

Last week I attended my first Open MVP day since I got the Microsoft MVP award. It was a great experience and I wanted to share what I learned and shout out to the great professionals I met there. For me, it’s an honor to be part of this community. Not only do…